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speaker: Aaron Brown, Internet2
slides: https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/download/attachments/10402/20130114-brown-meshconfg.pdf
Problem: each perfSONAR server is a testing island. How do we avoid doing the same test between servers, or missing a path in a mesh? Solution: a centrally-managed description of the "mesh", in JSON format. Each server downloads the the shared description periodically. This is integrated with MaDDash.
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The Effects Of GSO/TSO On TCP Performance
speaker: Andy Germain, NASA
The TSO feature of modern NICs will screw up tcpdump because a large packet is sent to the NIC and is then fragmented by the NIC. It makes sense to offload the CPU.
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